Handy v. Barclay
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Writ op Error to reverse a judgment of a justice of the peace in an action of summary process, brought to and tried by the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County, Simpson, Jthe court rendered judgment for the defendants, finding no error in the record, and the plaintiff appealed. No error.
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Writ op Error to reverse a judgment of a justice of the peace in an action of summary process, brought to and tried by the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County, Simpson, Jthe court rendered judgment for the defendants, finding no error in the record, and the plaintiff appealed. No error. An action of summary process was brought by the present appellees, defendants in error in the court below, before a justice of the peace for New Haven County, to dispossess the plaintiff, the present appellant and plaintiff in the court below, from certain tenements in the city of New Haven. ■ The…
1Opinion of the CourtKeeler, J.
Upon his assignments of error above noted, appellant makes the following claims: that a parol lease for more than a year is valid if sufficient evidence is offered to satisfy the statute of frauds, and that the Exhibits A and B, appearing in the above statement, furnish satisfactory evidence. As subsidiary to this claim, it is further contended that the agency of Cummings for the other appellees could be established by parol, and hence the demurrer was bad as to all the appellees; that the assignee or lessee of a co-tenant in possession cannot be ousted by a cotenant, and hence the demurrer…
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